Slimming World - Extra Easy weight loss!!

consultant31

Bluefire wrote: »

Thanks so much for this, my previously mentioned friend has decided to join next week - I've told her to go & pick up the magazine & she's thrilled to be able to save a tenner!

There are always offers on in group and your first week's fee (joining + the group fee) is never more than £10.

consultant31

blackberry-rum wrote: »

about targets: when one reaches target, as I understand it, the class is free provided you stay within 3 lb one way or the other? I've noticed our cons. asks "do you want to change your target?" when you are nearly there, so you say "Oh yes, take another stone off" (for instance) and then of course you keep paying without a break. I plan to stop at my next target for a few weeks of free class, then re-set it. Is that mean?

Lol, no it's not mean, just that if, during the time you stop paying, you lose more than 3lbs you'd have to pay anyway. I think if you stop trying during that period, you may find it hard to gather the discipline to start again.

It's harder than you may imagine to stay at target. It can be done obviously, but it takes time to learn to judge what you can add each day in order to maintain rather than lose or gain weight.

Vixie_Pixie

whoopidoo wrote: »

I must admit this discussion this week has got me and my OH really talking about it this week. I think that's why I could never stick with WW I could never understand why I had to point fruit and so would save my points for chocolate instead. I keep telling people that SW is not a diet it's more about re-eductaing me about the way I eat. I don't feel deprived, I don't feel like I'm on a diet and 9 weeks in I'm still loving it. I agree with everything you said Vixie Pixie. I started off having the 4 yogurts a day for the first few weeks too. Now I'm down to at most 2 a day, very occasionally 3. Not because I felt I had to stop having them, just that my eating habits are changing and I'm finding other things to replace them with... (The Irish Diet yogurts for a start ) I think my portion sizes are gradually getting to more 'normal' person sizes too. I even have normal slices of cake every so often without beating myself up - I just don't eat the WHOLE cake now and I am learning that it's not a green light to go oh well, been naughty anyway, stuff my face. If that makes sense? You can have your treats and still lose. Like everyone's saying - it's teaching me a bit of common sense. (only took 33 years! LOL!)

Will go copy and paste the recipe from my blog gallygirl brb

Will go read that minimins thread too

OMG WW point fruit??? Thats a bit ... :think: unusual.. lol! "So mmm shall i have this banana or this biscuit.. umm.. ooh biscuit" :rotfl:

I do think once the initial "OMG DIET" feeling has surpassed and the craving stops things get much easier and the reduction in portion size sort of follows... iyswim

I dont know about you but i actually find huge slices of cake really sickly now.. i'm more than happy with my small (you could even call it normal!) slice

When i look back i think i ate a cake of some description at least 5 times a week :eek:

jellyspots

~daisy~ wrote: »

jellyspots - it really wasnt a criticism but reading it back it does look a little like that - im so sorry
you can eat as many of them as you like as they are ''free food''

once again sorry

No don't worry honestly. No offence taken really.
Can't wait to join sw tomorrow feeling very up for it!
Kept on the straight and narrow today so looking forward to getting on with some weight loss!

whoopidoo

Vixie_Pixie wrote: »

OMG WW point fruit??? Thats a bit ... :think: unusual.. lol! "So mmm shall i have this banana or this biscuit.. umm.. ooh biscuit" :rotfl:

I do think once the initial "OMG DIET" feeling has surpassed and the craving stops things get much easier and the reduction in portion size sort of follows... iyswim

I dont know about you but i actually find huge slices of cake really sickly now.. i'm more than happy with my small (you could even call it normal!) slice

When i look back i think i ate a cake of some description at least 5 times a week :eek:

They do indeed point fruit - never could understand it. And yes, now I think about it, when I had that big slab of carrot cake at Tesco the other day, I was also sharing it with my toddler and my OH was nicking bites wheras before I would've stabbed anyone with my fork if they even looked at my plate if it had cake on it :rotfl:

blackberry-rum

evening all, lost again this week (2 lb) so very pleased. I treated myself to chip shop chips but mixed them with watercress, beetroot, spring onion and some fresh prawns - in fact most of the chips are still in the wrapper, will probably be chopped up for the Big Birds (jackdaws and crows) in the morning. I am finding I no longer actually ENJOY the bad stuff (ie chips). And what's more, chips were the good option as I had fancied treating myself to an Indian takeaway on the way back from class (tuesday night being Eat Whatever I Want Night) but decided it wasn't worth chancing putting weight on for the sake of it ..... how sad am I? I think your tastes do change though, the longer you do it. After all, we aren't born yearning for sweet stuff and fatty stuff, we just get used to it then we yearn for it. So when we stop eating them we gradually become stronger and can resist.

Who was asking about bread and cereal as HEBs? On Extra Easy you only get one HEB, so it's either bread or cereal; and someone has already listed how much of the various breads you can have - that's instead of cereal!

gallygirl

whoopidoo wrote: »

I reckon, over 4 people that makes 25g of cheese so you could have these as a HExA option. They are so yummy and don't have the texture of couscous at all once made up

em, if I eat them all how many syns in the other 75g of cheese .

Will be making these on Thursday methinks, sound gorgeous, thanks :T

zzzLazyDaisy

Went for WI today hoping to maintain (had my sister over and kinda lost the plot) so I was really surprised and pleased to find that I had lost 1.5 lbs.

Am well pleased!

:j

whoopidoo

gallygirl wrote: »

em, if I eat them all how many syns in the other 75g of cheese .

Will be making these on Thursday methinks, sound gorgeous, thanks :T

:rotfl:Well - if using cheddar it's 6 syns per 28g! Eek! :eek: Could try using low fat cheese They are delish - my MIL found them in the Morrisons mag and made them for us last time we went up. Very nummy!

Well done all the fab losses so far this week - hopefully I'll be saying the same on thursday!

c_l_a_i_r_e

STS at weigh in last night:) I'm a bit bored with it all at the moment so I think I need to read through some old magazines for some recipe ideas or something. Congrats to all who have lost this week:T